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Rose, an older woman living in Paris was born in Poland as a daughter of an aristocratic family. Her family house is now an impoverished home for the elderly.

The main character - a man who suffers from alcoholism - wants to change his tumultuous life. The day before Christmas Eve he receives a gift from his son - a yellow scarf. A gift is a kind of talisman he receives from loved ones, and every time he loses it. When after another banquet he falls into delirium, his ex-wife and secretary bring him to his mother. She helps him to sober up and arranges holiday celebration for two of them. She gives her son another yellow scarf, in belief that it will help him break the pernicious habit.

Entertaining movie about the early days of Polish stock exchange in the beginning of 80's. Young TV reporter is sucked into the inferno of easy money, deception, crime, sex and drugs. Sometimes like Kieslowski's moral tales, sometimes like Pasikowski's brutal fables, even sometimes like "Once upon a time in America". Fantastic creations of Baka as Maks and Majchrzak as Rekin /the Shark/ - evil incarnated.

In the mid-17th century, Poland was the largest, most democratic, and most tolerant country in Europe. However, a tragic civil war brought about the gradual decline of the once glorious republic...

Ewa is a beautiful, happily married woman. One day she meets a young woman claiming to be in affair with her husband. Ewa, shocked, doesn't know whom to believe any more.

In the life of Ula, a twenty-year-old very pretty girl, nothing good has happened so far. Poverty, her father an alcoholic abuser to his family, finally an illegitimate child, raised alone ...

In the life of Ula, a twenty-year-old very pretty girl, nothing good has happened so far. Poverty, her father an alcoholic abuser to his family, finally an illegitimate child, raised alone ...

The story of six Polish emigrants living in New York City, who try to live their American Dream and cope with the realities of the Big Apple.

In this adaptation of an historical play by Pope John Paul II, painter Albert Chmielowski decides to devote his life to helping the homeless.

Two Polish brothers arrive in Paris with dreams of becoming rich and famous, and sure enough, they are soon participating in some forgotten film festival as a producer and a director -- but will this get them anywhere?

In the beginning of the Second World War, Germans, Austrians and persons without nationality living in France are sent to the concentration camp of Les Milles by France government. Commander Charles Perrochon is the responsible for this camp and he promises to the leaders of the prisoners to protect them from the Nazis. When France is invaded by the Germans, Commander Perronchon will disobey orders and his superiors trying to save these men. He gets a train, a ship and money from USA to send about eight hundred of these prisoners to the safety of Casablanca, in Marrocos.

2차 세계대전 당시 독일군이 점령한 폴란드. 시류에 맞춰 자신의 성공을 추구하는 기회주의자 쉰들러는 유태인이 경영하는 그릇 공장을 인수한다. 그는 공장을 인수하기 위해 나찌 당원이 되고 독일군에게 뇌물을 바치는 등 갖은 방법을 동원한다. 그러나 냉혹한 기회주의자였던 쉰들러는 유태인 회계사인 스턴과 친분을 맺으면서 냉혹한 유태인 학살에 대한 양심의 소리를 듣기 시작한다. 마침내 그는 강제 수용소로 끌려가 죽음을 맞게될 유태인들을 구해내기로 결심하고, 독일군 장교에게 빼내는 사람 숫자대로 뇌물을 주는 방법으로 유태인들을 구해내려는 계획을 세우는데...

Zbyszek Butryn returns to Poland from exile to help win the Solidarity elections. His children, staying in orphanages, who intend to find him, learn about his father's return.

The astronaut Charles Enak refuses to come back to Earth after completing a mission in orbit. While he also refuses to give any explanation for his behaviour, the world enters its biggest crisis since the Cold War. As journalists try to find out more about Enak and his backstory in communist Poland, they discover that he possesses the ability to influence people's sub-consciousness.

A young writer in 1939 Warsaw faces the conflict of acting his age or relapsing into childhood during the brink of World War II. Based on the famous novel Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz.

The story of catholic saint Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941), who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz.

1980년 결성된 폴란드의 자유노조 운동은 1981년에 들어서면서 전국적인 조직으로 확산되기 시작했다. 비밀 경찰 요원인 스테판은 노조 운동의 확산을 막기위해 요주의 인물 중의 하나인 알렉 신부의 조사를 맡게된다. 신부를 조사하는 동안 스테판은 알 수 없는 힘에 이끌려 서서히 그의 매력에 빠지게 되는 자신을 발견한다. 하지만 스테판은 이를 인정하려 하지 않는다. 한편 아내와 아들 미렉이 사람들로부터 따돌림을 당하게 되자 스테판은 이러한 심리상태의 표적을 신부로 정하여 그에 대한 증오심을 불태운다. 스테판은 직속 상관인 대령의 소개로 상부관리의 눈에 들어 신부를 마음대로 해도 좋다는 것을 받아낸다. 신부를 체포하려는 여러번의 시도에 실패한 그는 지방에 설교하러 가는 신부를 살해할 계획을 세운다. 하지만 신부에 대한 애증의 마음을 갖고 있는 스테판은 신부를 살해하기 전날 밤 인간적인 고뇌를 겪으며 마침내 신부에게 지방에 설교하러 가지 말라는 전화를 한다. 전화를 받은 신부 또한 고민을 하지만 강직한 성품을 가진 그는 주의의 만류에도 불구하고 설교를 강행하여 끝내 스테판의 손에 살해되고 만다. 신부가 살해되었다는 소식은 전국에 퍼지고 이 사건은 폴란드 자유노조 운동에 더 큰 불씨를 던지는 결과를 낳게 된다. 결국 공산 체제를 유지하려고 노력했던 폴란드의 비밀 경찰 요원인 스테판은 자유를 갈망하는 시민들의 강한 항의와 투쟁으로 인하여 처벌받게 되고, 국민들과 함께 한 알렉 신부의 정신은 길이 빛나게 되었다.

A young woman is bitten by the acting bug after seeing Marilyn Monroe in "Some Like It Hot". She patterns herself after MM and after finishing high school goes for screen tests to the Film Academy. Rejected because of her crooked teeth she takes a job of selling beer on a train and starts writing to Billy Wilder, trying to be casted in his next movie. At the trains station she meets a would-be cinematographer who is color blind. They become friends sharing their dreams of going to Hollywood. One day she finds a goldfish trapped in a beer bottle: she sets her free and makes three wishes, not for herself but for her friends. To her surprise all of them come true. As a reward she gets a long awaited call from Billy Wilder. Written by Polish Cinema Database

An unsuspecting student thinks that the wife of an arms dealer is unhappy, but in reality she appears as cynical as her capitalist man.

American housewife Cathy Palmer loses her memory on a trip to Paris after being hit by a car. She wakes up in the hospital believing she's the fictional international spy, Rebecca Ryan.

Paul is a playboy: a former girlfriend asks him to marry Zosia ,a Polish girl ,opponent of the regime of her country (it's 1981,December would see the state of siege in Poland and the arrest of many opponents) Paul hesitates but they told him so: it will be an unconsummated marriage and they will divorce shortly after.Against all odds,Paul ,who is a happy-go-lucky guy,who does not care about politics,flies to Warsaw :Zosia is a gorgeous blonde, and during their honeymoon, he falls in love with her.But it's not that easy ;back in Paris, Zosia is still a political activist whose friends look upon Paul as an intruder.

Polish Martin Gray recalls the Holocaust, New York prosperity, and losing his wife and family.

시골출신의 소설지망생 스팅고(피터 맥니콜)는 브루클린에서 값이 싼 집을 얻어 들어갔다가 옆집에 사는 생물학자 부부를 알게 된다. 네이단(케빈 클린)과 소피 부부와 친해진 스팅고는 소피(메릴 스트립)가 유태인 학살현장에서 살아왔다는 사실을 알게 되고 그녀에게서 이야기를 듣게 된다. 소피는 아버지와 남편을 잃고, 애인이 레지스탕스였다는 이유로 아우슈비츠로 보내진다. 수용소로 가는 도중 독일장교가 소피의 미모에 반해 그녀의 아이 둘 중에 하나만을 살려주겠다고 한다. 소피는 궁지에 몰린 상황에서 아들을 선택하여 살려낸다. 딸을 저버린 모정으로 그녀는 있는 힘을 다해 살아남고자 하고 수용소에 있는 아들을 구해내고자 한다. 하지만 아들을 찾지 못하고 전쟁은 끝난다. 미국에 와서 네이단을 만난 소피는 그와 살지만 네이단은 정신이상증세를 가지고 있다. 스팅고는 소피의 과거를 듣고 그녀를 사랑하게 된다. 소피에게 사랑을 고백하고 그들은 함께 떠나지만...

The main character, nicknamed "Teddy Bear" by his friends and acquaintances, is a manager of a sports club in Poland. One day he is detained at the border just as his sport team is off to a tournament. It appears that somebody has torn out a few pages from his passport. It occurs to him that perhaps his ex-wife has done it in order to get her hands on their joint account in a London bank. Therefore, he has to get to London as soon as possible in order to transfer the money to a different bank. The solution is taking part in a movie, made by his friend. The script requires a double role, thus the search for another actor is announced. The double has to apply for the passport, and that is solved through a girlfriend who agrees to play the dope's new fiancée. At the engagement party he is slipped a drug, and Teddy Bear runs off to the airport with the false passport. On the plane, however, he meets his ex-wife...

Ewa is a reporter. Using her feminine charms and other means she is trying to become a journalist on a Warsaw weekly popular magazine. She hopes to become political interviewer of personalities and state leaders. On her way up the ladder she trips over one of her own shoestrings and falls short of the goal she has been pursuing so fanatically.

Bearing traces of the old Anton Chekhov play The Wedding, The Contract is set during an "arranged" ceremony. The bride and groom barely know each other, but this matters not at all to their tradition-bound families. At the last minute, the bride balks. Only slightly nonplused, the groom's father, a status-seeking doctor, decides to go ahead with the expensive reception anyway. Polish director Krzysz Zanussi uses this scenario to stick it to capitalist corruption, and to society's destruction of the individual spirit. Leslie Caron, the one recognizable member of the cast, is outstanding as a wealthy, over-the-hill ballerina who happens to be a kleptomaniac.

Polish adaptation of the J. Sheridan LeFanu vampire novella.

Detective thriller about a killer loose in the crowds. The film follows a sniper on his rounds looking for victims, while a police inspector, with few clues in hand, has to figure out the motive for the killings as well as who the psychopath is and where he might strike next. He uncovers that the mentally deranged sniper can't stand seeing people happy together in public places.

A lonely Piotr Płaksin, who makes a living from part-time jobs, lives his dreams of a trip to the Easter Islands on a self-built yacht. One day a man learns that he has become a father.

An officer stationed in a remote Ukranian outpost at the end of the First World War is dying of consumption. Suffering from feverish dreams and hallucinations, he begins to collect religious art and attends seances.

Tadeusz Krzakoski (Krzysztof Kowalewski), the director of a failing state-owned company, is married with problems. His mistress, the daughter of a Communist party bigwig, says she's pregnant and Tadeusz knows he'll have to marry her to save his reputation and his job. But divorce is never simple and Bareja's screwball comedies are never boring.

In what appears to be an inexplicable incident, a man drives up to a resort hotel in midwinter, throws away his car keys, enters, and proceeds to agitate everyone he meets with his urgency -- a message he is somehow unable to communicate. Then he leaves, disappearing in the snow. Later, the people he appeared to have upset have gathered to search for him and find him frostbitten, but alive. Visiting him at the sanatorium to which he has been taken, they gradually discover what was really happening.

언어학을 공부하는 대학생들이 작은 별장에 모여 여름 방학 캠프에서 토론을 나눈다. 학생들을 지도하는 26살의 젊은 교수 야로스와프는 학생들의 창의적인 접근을 북돋지만 그의 자유분방한 태도는 동료 교수인 야쿱과 번번히 충돌을 빚는다. 이들의 대립은 야로스와프의 학생인 야렉이 제출한 논문을 두고 정점을 찍는다. 1977년 폴란드영화제 황금사자상, 각본상, 남우주연상(즈비그뉴 자파시에비츠) 수상. 1978년 로테르담영화제 연출상 수상

Modest editor, has shipped his wife and kids for the weekend, and is trying to relax in his house at the outskirts of Warsaw. His quiet evening is only disturbed by the accidental forecast made by a Gypsy woman, that at evening time he will murder a mysterious brunet.

Andrzej Wajda's English-language film of a novella by Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, aka Joseph Conrad, about a young man in his first command as a sea captain. A series of crises prove incredibly difficult for his new authority, for the sea is curiously becalmed and the crew is weakened by feverish malaria. When the first mate's fear convinces many that the ship is haunted and cursed by the malevolent spirit of the previous captain, the young man must cope with their superstition as well as the conspicuous absence of much-needed medicine.

A stranger shows up in an American town, promising a reward for the person who once helped him out of trouble.